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Bill Gates launches effort to help the world adapt to climate change
National Geographic ^ | October 16, 2018 | BY LAURA PARKER

Posted on 10/16/2018 11:05:44 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

... Until recently, the consequences of climate change were thought to be so far into the future that many average people, including those who live in coastal zones, declared they needn’t bother; they’d be long dead by the time catastrophe struck.

No more. Climate change is here, costing billions of dollars every year to recover from destructive events. Without adapting to that new reality, the world will confront rising costs of disasters that put economic growth, health, and in some places, even survival at risk.

To spur action, a coalition led by billionaire Bill Gates, former United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, and World Bank CEO Kristalina Georgieva on Tuesday launched the Global Commission on Adaptation to lessen the damage.

“We are at a moment of high risk and great promise,” Gates said in a statement. “We need policies to help vulnerable populations adapt and we need to ensure that governments ... are … supporting innovation and helping deliver those breakthroughs to … places that need them the most.”

The commission will spend a year sorting out the best adaptation approaches and present a plan to the 2019 United Nations climate summit.

(Excerpt) Read more at nationalgeographic.com ...


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1 posted on 10/16/2018 11:05:44 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

will this nonsense ever stop?


2 posted on 10/16/2018 11:06:28 AM PDT by wny
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

well, it’s his money to waste LOL


3 posted on 10/16/2018 11:06:59 AM PDT by max americana (Fired libtard employees 9 consecutive times at every election since 08'. I hope all liberals die.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What Bill should do is buy everyone in the world a beer.

Before Climate Changes takes away all our beers.

https://www.google.com/search?num=100&safe=off&source=hp&ei=eyjGW5C6NOSpjwSegZzoDg&q=climate+change+beer+shortage&oq=CLIMATE+CHANGE+BEER&gs_l=psy-ab.1.0.0i3j0j0i22i30l5.2452.7211..11205...0.0..0.721.4207.2j11j5j5-1j1......0....1..gws-wiz.....0..0i131.w9_pmwwWxnk


4 posted on 10/16/2018 11:07:54 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Headline: “Bill Gates launches effort to help the world adapt to climate change”

Like I tell my wife all the time “Please don’t help me.”


5 posted on 10/16/2018 11:08:50 AM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists call 'em what you will they all have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
So he's committing $0.02 to the effort? 💸💸💸💸💸
6 posted on 10/16/2018 11:09:09 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer; LonePalm

So, will Bill Gates fund moving ALL of New Orleans, people, homes and businesses to higher ground? Hmmmm?

Or, will he fund a 20foot sea-wall (and make France pay for it?)


7 posted on 10/16/2018 11:10:03 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic, Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym explains the science.)
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8 posted on 10/16/2018 11:11:06 AM PDT by DannyTN
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9 posted on 10/16/2018 11:11:06 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Dems @ the Kavanaugh lynching, told the world that non gay men of any color have Zero future w/them!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

If this is what having big money does to your brain, I will be happy to stay poor....


10 posted on 10/16/2018 11:13:23 AM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
We demand the climate on Earth be static!

In other news...

Forget Global Warming: Winter is Coming — and It Will Be a Doozy
July 16, 2018

For the last approximately 2.5 million years the Earth has been cycling in and out of long glacial periods, punctuated by much shorter warm interglacials. For the last one million-plus years the planet has been in 100,000-year cycles of ice advance and welcome warming.

The last ice age ended about 11,500 years ago, enabling humanity to prosper and advance.

Bad things happen during cold periods, very bad things. The most recent cold era is referred to as the Little Ice Age (1250-1850), and it brought severe hardship and death.

When is the next glacial advance expected? Interglacials typically last 10,000 to 12,000 years and we are now nearly 12,000 years into our current one. The authors of a detailed analysis of Antarctic ice cores reported that our current interglacial is “by far, the longest stable warm period recorded in Antarctica” during the past 420,000 years. So the next glacial advance and the accompanying true climate catastrophes may arrive in the next hundred or so years or we may be spared an icy apocalypse for more than a thousand years. However, it is coming.


https://www.heartland.org/news-opinion/news/forget-global-warming-winter-is-coming--and-it-will-be-a-doozy
11 posted on 10/16/2018 11:17:02 AM PDT by rxsid (HOW CAN A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN'S STATUS BE "GOVERNED" BY GREAT BRITAIN? - Leo Donofrio (2009))
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Anything that includes the word ‘global’ also includes a load of bull schnitt.


12 posted on 10/16/2018 11:17:30 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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“...launched the Global Commission on Adaptation to lessen the damage...”

Hey Bill, there’s a nice lake side home in the north woods of Wisconsin you can buy for me to escape the “global warming”.


13 posted on 10/16/2018 11:18:56 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneot)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

If I was really worried about it and had a lot of cash, I’d check topographic maps and buy as much land as possible that would make the new coastline.


14 posted on 10/16/2018 11:19:31 AM PDT by fruser1
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To: Oldeconomybuyer; All

“...and in some places, even survival [is] at risk.”

All Oklahomans need to get out! Tornadoes!

All Wisconsinites need to get out! Blizzards!

All Californians need to get out! Forest Fires!

All people living by a lake, river, stream, ocean, puddle or drainage ditch needs to get out! Flooding!

All people living in the Mountains need to get out! Bears! Landslides!

All humans need to just kill themselves right now and be done with it! You’ll never make it out alive! ;)


15 posted on 10/16/2018 11:20:13 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin ( "Why can't you be more like Lloyd Braun?")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

We would have to live 10,000 times longer to see the Climate change ,does he have a magic potion ,LOL


16 posted on 10/16/2018 11:20:44 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I’d have a lot more respect for Mr. Gates if he just came out and admitted he wanted to wipe out 6.5 billion peasants.


17 posted on 10/16/2018 11:21:48 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Democracy dies when Democrats refuse to accept the result of a democratic election they didn't win.)
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Global Warming????!? OH NOES!!!!

Maybe that will offset the current, observed onset of the Mini Ice Age!!!!

... but I doubt it.

18 posted on 10/16/2018 11:24:56 AM PDT by Lazamataz (On future maps, I suggest we remove the word "California" and substitute "Open-Air Asylum".)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Is he going to buy everyone climate control space type suits with oxygen tanks?


19 posted on 10/16/2018 11:26:09 AM PDT by Leep (Thanks)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Seeking power, they instill fear, using LIES!!


20 posted on 10/16/2018 11:29:38 AM PDT by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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